Engawa, spaces and voices
With Ryuta Imafuku, Meiro Koizumi and Yasuhiro Morinaga
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Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianIn English, with simultaneous translation to Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language interpretation.
This conversation raises fundamental questions of our coexistence with all kinds of entities in an era of technological, social and political transformations. It also brings awareness to the constant evolution and transformation of the Japanese composite cultures, their identity, their spirit, their environment and their ecosystems.
The permanent encounters with “strange strangers” that affect the collective and intimate consciences in this part of the world can provide perspectives on common questions related to the social, historical and ecological issues facing in the global world today.
Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan
‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info
Biographies
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Ryuta Imafuku
Ryuta Imafuku is an anthropologist, a cultural critic and professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. As visiting professor at the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of São Paulo (2000) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2003), he has constantly contributed to the development of Cultural Studies in Brazil and other regions of Latin America, the Caribbean islands and the East Asian archipelago. Among other publications, he wrote ‘The Heterology of Culture’, ‘Homo Ludens in Brazil’ and ‘Archipel-Monde’.
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Meiro Koizumi
Meiro Koizumi (Gunma, Japão, 1976) é um artista que mistura realidade e ficção em vídeos experimentais e performances que exploram as relações entre o Estado, o coletivo e o indivíduo, bem como o corpo humano e as suas emoções. Nos últimos anos, tem apresentado numerosos trabalhos que incorporam a tecnologia AR/VR em performances que questionam o futuro da humanidade. As suas obras foram apresentadas em numerosas bienais e museus e fazem parte de coleções públicas em todo o mundo. Koizumi frequentou o Chelsea College of Art and Design, em Londres (1999-2002), bem como a Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, em Amesterdão (2005-2006).
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Yasuhiro Morinaga
Yasuhiro Morinaga (b. Japan, 1980) is a sound artist and sound designer based in Lisbon, who has developed an interest in conducting ethnographic fieldwork intersecting sound/music and anthropology. As an artist, he has created media installations and theatrical performances featuring an auditory culture, encompassing listeners and encouraging them to experience and gain awareness of the sounds that tend to be unnoticed. His work has been commissioned by festivals and organizations such as the Japan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Nippon Foundation and WIRED Japan.
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Emmanuelle de Montgazon
MA in Contemporary Art History, Emmanuelle de Montgazon works on open and transversal artistic approaches that unite different art forms, maintaining privileged links with Japan. Between 1997 and 2006 she was appointed cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Tokyo and New York. Since 2012 she has been Director of Ryoji Ikeda’s Studio in Paris and Kyoto and Advisor to the Odawara Art Foundation, founded by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Programme
18:30 / Lecture performance 'Fluttering inside and outside: A creolist thought of Japan as an “eco-monde”'
19:00 / Talk
19:45 / Q&A
20:15 / Closing
Support
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